• @friend_of_satan
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    5 months ago

    catb is full of great info, including the answer to the question.

    http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch01s06.html

    This is the Unix philosophy: Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.

    Edit: replaced with the succinct version.

    • @Mango
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      45 months ago

      Ooohhh, I’ve been reading bits of catb.org since I was like 13!

    • @[email protected]
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      15 months ago

      Using one specific source for the definition of the Unix Philosophy is against the Unix Philosophy. /s